RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Dynamic representation of time in brain states JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 069278 DO 10.1101/069278 A1 Fernanda Dantas Bueno A1 Vanessa C. Morita A1 Raphael Y. de Camargo A1 Marcelo B. Reyes A1 Marcelo S. Caetano A1 André M. Cravo YR 2016 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/08/11/069278.abstract AB The ability to process time on the scale of milliseconds and seconds is essential for behaviour. A growing number of studies have started to focus on brain dynamics as a mechanism for temporal encoding. Although there is growing evidence in favour of this view from computational and in vitro studies, there is still a lack of results from experiments in humans. We show that high-dimensional brain states revealed by multivariate pattern analysis of human EEG are correlated to temporal judgements. First, we show that, as participants estimate temporal intervals, the spatiotemporal dynamics of their brain activity are consistent across trials. Second, we present evidence that these dynamics exhibit properties of temporal perception, such as the scalar property. Lastly, we show that it is possible to predict temporal judgements based on brain states. These results show how scalp recordings can reveal the spatiotemporal dynamics of human brain activity related to temporal processing.